Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Esquivalience t 23:42, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner

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Non-notable person created by a PR sock. Getting patents isn't enough to show notability, fails WP:GNG. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:37, 5 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep Easily passes WP:GNG being covered in numerous sources such as American Women in Technology. The subject has been dead for nearly 10 years and so the idea that this is some sort of PR scam is implausible. Andrew D. (talk) 18:06, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
 * In fact, PR socks do sometimes appear to create articles about genuinely notable people in an effort to get around editors like E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:57, 5 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep irrespective of the fact that some lowlife sock started the article, even a quick search shows that Kenner is widely written up in RS for her invention of a sanitary product.E.M.Gregory (talk) 19:01, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep She is listed in the following books about inventors:
 * Blashfield, Jean F. 1996. Women inventors. Minneapolis: Capstone Press.
 * Jeffrey, Laura S. Amazing American Inventors of the 20th Century. Enslow Publishers, 2013. Print.
 * Sluby, Patricia C. The Inventive Spirit of African Americans: Patented Ingenuity. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2004.
 * LaMona (talk) 01:57, 6 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep – Notable subject per WP:BASIC:, , . The article was created prior to its creator being blocked for sock puppetry. North America1000 10:40, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
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